Botswana: Top 10 Quick Facts

Dumela rra (sir)/ Dumela mma(madam), welcome to Botswana!

Motto: "Pula" which means 'rain'

• Botswana is located in southern Africa.

• The Flag of Botswana has two blue horizontal stripes. In the middle of the horizontal lines is a black horizontal stripe with two horizontal white lines, which are on top and bottom of the black horizontal stripe.

• Capital city of Botswana is Gaborone with a population of over 200,000 people.

(By: Prof. Olerile, commons.wikimedia.org)

• Another city of Botswana is Francistown with a population of over 80,000 people.

(By: Prof. Olerile, commons.wikimedia.org)

• The official language of Botswana is English, but Setswana (Tswana) is the most widely spoken language of Botswana.

• National animal: Zebra

• National plant: Sengaparile (Devil's claw)

• Botswana Police Day

• Botswana's most popular sport: Football/ soccer

• And, anybody's favorite: Food
  

Goat Meat Stew

(By: Honeybee5512, commons.wikimedia.org )

Braai Meat

(By: Fdimolloy, commons.wikimedia.org)